My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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From Ray Bradbury: “Love What YOU Love!”

A thoughtful reader send me a link to a wonderful site, Letters of Note — “correspondence deserving of a wider audience.” In particular, she pointed out a letter that writer Ray Bradbury wrote to a fan. The line that caught my eye was: “Love what YOU love!” It’s constantly a surprise to me just how challenging this is. Why is …


List: False Choices. Do Any of These False Choices Sound Familiar?

Every Wednesday is Quiz Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: A list of false choices. The more I’ve thought about happiness, the more wary I’ve become of false choices. It’s so easy to frame choices or attitudes in an either/or way, and yet, so often, that choice is misleading. Often, there are other options; or the choice is overly reductionist; …